Note: Saint Paul says “the flesh is weak” and C. S. Lewis reminds us that Christianity “approves of the body.” It’s important for us to maintain this distinction between our “sinful flesh” and the creation that God called “very good.” They are really talking about two different things.

(Also, we really should encourage more writers to use words like “muddle-headed.”)

Quote:
“I know that some muddle-headed Christians have talked as if Christianity thought that sex, or the body, or pleasure were bad in themselves. But they are wrong. Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions which thoroughly approves of the body — which believes that matter is good, that God himself once took on a human body, that some kind of body is going to be given to us even in Heaven and is going to be an essential part of our happiness, our beauty, and our energy….

“If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once.” (p. 91)

Source: Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. New York: Macmillan, 1960.